Sentences with phrase «dictatorial regime»

It is public knowledge that Dasuki had served previous administration of General Muhammadu Buhari and General Ibrahim Babangida but was against dictatorial regime of General Sani Abacha, before he sought asylum outside the country where he teamed up with other Nigerians in the Diaspora to campaign against that military dictatorship and entrenchment of democracy.

While cultivating freedom at home, during most of the 20th century the U.S. tolerated, assisted and instigated dictatorial regimes in Latin America and elsewhere.

A push toward a scientific sovereignty in which the empirical world was the only world, a mechanization of life through the emerging structures of technology and mass industry, a cultivation of persons along the lines of immediate gratification and fulfillment of base impulses, and the use of mass culture by dictatorial regimes to shape a people.

Without knowing it, what they are saying is that there should be no difference in the way dictatorial regimes ruled Ghana, and the way a constitutional democratic government should rule Ghana.

The reaction among scholars, activists, journalists, bloggers and PanAfricanists was immediate in identifying the inaccuracies, exaggerations and oversimplifications, which addresses «crimes... from a bygone era» as a tool to cultivate American military support (read intervention) for the Ugandan government, «a repressive dictatorial regime» responsible for looting, rape and atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Middle East is going through huge changes, with dictatorial regimes being challenged and swept away — in some instances relatively smoothly and yet in others, tragically bloodily.

Sigourney Weaver (Dave, Alien 3) stars as Paulina Escobar, wife of Gerardo Escobar (Wilson, The Age of Innocence), a soon - to - be bigwig in the new democratic government of a South American nation which recently underwent a revolution to overthrow its brutal dictatorial regime.

Like previous Jagged Alliance games, the goal is to infiltrate and topple the current dictatorial regime of a nondescript Caribbean-esque island.

In the world of Eric Schmidt, and by extension Google, sharing information is always a good thing — when it comes to toppling dictatorial regimes or being told we should be buying new trousers; if we share all our personal information with Google then Google will look after our lives.

This show put special emphasis on how much Oiticica's work was rooted in different continents — influenced by European constructivism, while reacting to the oppression of Brazilian dictatorial regime and the experience of the New York counterculture.

Not including the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, we now station over half a million U.S. troops, spies, contractors, dependents, and others on military bases located in more than 130 countries, many of them presided over by dictatorial regimes that have given their citizens no say in the decision to let us in.

She can barely speak, but it's important that she regain her voice since District 13 rebel leaders Alma Coin (Julianne Moore) and Plutarch Heavensbee (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman) need the Mockingjay to unite the districts of Panem so that they can jointly overthrow the corrupt, dictatorial regime of President Snow (Donald Sutherland).

Similarly, paintings like Picasso's Guernica have gotten under the skin of dictatorial regimes.

Imagine a society terrorized by a dictatorial regime dedicated to suppressing the church, and read Revelation — and understand the core message that whatever evils the world may produce, God will triumph.

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

The point of the Moldovan protests is to confront a dictatorial regime — not to get top coverage in online media.

«It seemed to me very likely that a dictatorial regime would then, in high dudgeon, want to storm out.

Even a dictatorial regime offers better conditions.

«We also note that this development may not be unconnected with the planned onslaught against the media, following its commitment in holding this dictatorial regime accountable since it took office.

All things forbidden to us by the dictatorial regime known as THE ADULTS.

There are obvious links between Raúl's actions and those of the dictatorial regime in place at that time in Chile; but this is woven subtly into the plot rather than stitched on for effect.

The inventive indie darling, Papers, Please won the Innovation Award and the honor for Best Downloadable Game in recognition of developer Lucas Pope's compelling gameplay structured around protocols and moral challenges of working as an immigration agent under a dictatorial regime.

In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of the dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of Western civilization and tyranny.

And that in turn alludes to the banning of those terms in education by a dictatorial regime in Argentina with something other than symbolic logic in mind.

A tragically emblematic figure in the emergence of Korea as a modern nation, Yi Gu was a young architect in I.M. Pei's New York office when he was summoned back to Korea by Park Chung - hee, who sought to shore up his dictatorial regime by enacting a symbolic restoration of Joseon Dynasty.

Europe — particularly Italy after two decades of the dictatorial regime — had yet to see a collection so representative of «non-objective» avant - garde art, from Cubism and Futurism to Dadaism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism.

A case in point is the Korean art phenomenon termed Dansaekhwa — a contemplative style of subtly layered and textured minimalist abstract monochrome painting that sprung up in the 1970s while Korea was under a repressive, dictatorial regime.

Will American energy independence not weaken the dictatorial regimes of Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, because all their oil will be picked up immediately by China and India?

«The main task,» he said, «is to replace the dictatorial regime in Kazakhstan and build a country on the model of America and Europe.»